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    On October 10, María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Machado has been a key figure in uniting the once-fractured opposition parties in Venezuela. The Nobel Committee praised Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

    On a damp morning in Hamilton, Ontario, Rabbi David Mivasair leans over a laptop in his home office, toggling between WhatsApp threads filled with names he now knows by heart — families in Gaza he has been speaking with for nearly two years. A father searching for insulin for his daughter. A grandmother whose house was turned to dust. A young man, newly displaced, who still dreams of teaching.

     In 1914, shortly after he moved to Berlin to serve as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics, Einstein was horrified by the onset of World War I. “Europe, in her insanity, has started something unbelievable,” he told a friend. “In such times one realizes to what a sad species of animal one belongs.” Writing to the French author Romain Rolland, he wondered whether “centuries of painstaking cultural effort” have “carried us no further than . . . the insanity of nationalism.”

     President Trump watched Fox News coverage of riotous protests in Portland, Oregon, and thought: I’ll do something about that. I’ll help out that city, send in the National Guard, and restore law-and-order.

    Being unvaccinated today is like having unprotected sex with a stranger carrying HIV—reckless, selfish, and deadly. Both are ticking time bombs. Both gamble with innocent lives.

   Kimmel, who has taken potshots at every President and other newsmakers without incident, suddenly has his career interrupted by this narcissistic clown who is adept at name calling and insults without no filters or consequences.

        The poorest American citizens will be harmed worse by the President and his MAGA puppets’ Shutdown Showdown.

I Can Only Imagine What Will Happen Next In The United States Of America.

       So, when I learned that Tom Homan, acting director of ICE and a central architect of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns, was born and raised in West Carthage, I felt two things at once: surprise and recognition. Surprise, because very few people from my neck of the woods rise to national prominence in government. Recognition, because Homan’s brand of xenophobic nationalism — his cold efficiency in tearing families apart — is not some foreign strain in the North Country. It’s native to the soil.

   The Spirit of ’76 is America’s most famous Revolutionary painting — the definitive image of independence, instantly recognizable wherever it appears. First displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, it captured the mood of a nation celebrating its hundredth year and looking back on its birth in revolution.